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im the sorry cumrag between the guitar and table that op forgot to throw in the bin before posting
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Every good book cave needs a cumrag. How else are you going to mop yourself up after a five-hour Sloterdijk binge?
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Jan 19, 2024 09:58
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'Read Some Real Literature: I'm the sorry cumrag'
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Jan 19, 2024 10:05
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Nabokov never used a cumrag
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Jan 19, 2024 18:59
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I just finished Light in August by Faulkner. Really enjoyed it. It was only my third Faulkner. I first read him last year after finishing everything by Cormac McCarthy. I have Go Down Moses from the library, which I’ll get to in a few months. Then I’ll go for Absalom, Absalom! after that.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:09
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cryptoclastic posted:I just finished Light in August by Faulkner. Really enjoyed it. It was only my third Faulkner. I first read him last year after finishing everything by Cormac McCarthy. I have Go Down Moses from the library, which I’ll get to in a few months. Then I’ll go for Absalom, Absalom! after that. Hell yeah.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:38
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Just skip to Absalom it is an incredible work.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:39
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Gertrude Perkins posted:Every good book cave needs a cumrag. How else are you going to mop yourself up after a five-hour Sloterdijk binge? Nobody can read Sloterdijk for more than about 20-25 minutes at a time. It's never happened.
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Jan 20, 2024 00:46
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mdemone posted:Nobody can read Sloterdijk for more than about 20-25 minutes at a time. It's never happened. There's an extremely funny and disgusting joke here about "Foams" but it only works in the original German
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Jan 20, 2024 06:50
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Gaius Marius posted:Just skip to Absalom it is an incredible work. I’m saving it for that moment when I really need a banger.
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Jan 20, 2024 07:42
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mdemone posted:Just because I posted these in another thread, thought I would show off here: very nice but why are non-book objects blocking views of the wonderful books? (actually I was recently in a similar situation but decided to remove any clutter, it's a personal preference)
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Jan 20, 2024 18:28
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:very nice but why are non-book objects blocking views of the wonderful books? (actually I was recently in a similar situation but decided to remove any clutter, it's a personal preference) I tend to clutter personal spaces with little tidbits. Brings me comfort. Like a crow might decorate a nest.
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Jan 20, 2024 19:03
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Gaius Marius posted:I dislike Audiobooks king lear is an exceptional and deeply beautiful work of art, imo shakespeare's best. just some truly moving language in that play. also "out, vile jelly!"
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Jan 20, 2024 19:15
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Cephas posted:king lear is an exceptional and deeply beautiful work of art, imo shakespeare's best. just some truly moving language in that play. also "out, vile jelly!" I should memorise this one and recite it verbatim whenever someone asks me what star sign I am: quote:This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical pre-dominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc'd obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's Tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows I am rough and lecherous. Fut! I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.
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Cephas posted:king lear is an exceptional and deeply beautiful work of art, imo shakespeare's best. just some truly moving language in that play. also "out, vile jelly!" No clue how close it is to the play but Kurosawa's Ran is by and by far my favorite work of his. Maybe I'll give the play a glance
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Jan 20, 2024 23:20
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It’s gotta lotta good stuff https://youtu.be/YRc49mytN_Y?si=MvV9OA5O6JPO6SDb?feature=shared
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Lobster Henry posted:I should memorise this one and recite it verbatim whenever someone asks me what star sign I am: Fut!
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mdemone posted:Fut! You better not be making fun of Shakespearean English, thou whoreson Z! Thou unnecessary letter!
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mdemone posted:Just because I posted these in another thread, thought I would show off here: Please sort out the order of your LOTR DVDs and Mark Twain autobiogs - the mismatch is doing my head in! 
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Jan 21, 2024 18:35
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Not sure where to start on "Real Literature." Only just got back into reading and am starting with a lot of fantasy (Brandon Sanderson/some grimdark authors), but not sure where to dive into some deep reads. I've been wanting to read Dostoevsky but not sure which translation reads best.
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Jan 21, 2024 20:23
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Read crime and punishment, it's great and one of the books that got me into Real Literature. I read the Garnett translation but I'm sure any of them are fine
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Jan 21, 2024 20:32
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virinvictus posted:Not sure where to start on "Real Literature." Only just got back into reading and am starting with a lot of fantasy (Brandon Sanderson/some grimdark authors), but not sure where to dive into some deep reads. I've been wanting to read Dostoevsky but not sure which translation reads best. Pick up Borge's Labyrinths. No other work can show how hollow fantasy is as quickly.
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Downloaded both! Cheers!
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I'm looking at The Consolation of Philosophy on Project Gutenberg. This is from the first paragraph of the intro:quote:The belief that what once pleased so widely must still have some charm is my excuse for attempting the present translation. The great work of Boethius, with its alternate prose and verse, skilfully fitted together like dialogue and chorus in a Greek play, is unique in literature, and has a pathetic interest from the time and circumstances of its composition. It ought not to be forgotten. Those who can go to the original will find their reward. There may be room also for a new translation in English after an interval of close on a hundred years. More translators need to bring this energy imo. "Wrap it up for the next century, lads - I've got this one covered." Accept no competitors!
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Jan 21, 2024 22:16
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Isn't that saying the previous translation is a century old, so maybe it's time for a new one?
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cryptoclastic posted:I just finished Light in August by Faulkner. Really enjoyed it. It was only my third Faulkner. I first read him last year after finishing everything by Cormac McCarthy. I have Go Down Moses from the library, which I’ll get to in a few months. Then I’ll go for Absalom, Absalom! after that. i have a really awesome old copy of light in august, not a first edition or anything valuable but from the late 30s and in perfect shape.
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Carthag Tuek posted:Isn't that saying the previous translation is a century old, so maybe it's time for a new one? I see this as correct
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virinvictus posted:Not sure where to start on "Real Literature." Only just got back into reading and am starting with a lot of fantasy (Brandon Sanderson/some grimdark authors), but not sure where to dive into some deep reads. I've been wanting to read Dostoevsky but not sure which translation reads best. give Hunger by Knut Hamsun a go as well, and since you come from genre fic, try Blindness by José Saramago
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Fantasy to Lit is a harder gap to cross than the Sci-Fi route
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Well if you must ruin things with your basic reading comprehension 
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fridge corn posted:Fantasy to Lit is a harder gap to cross than the Sci-Fi route historical fiction might scratch some of the same itches that sprawling high fantasy epics does
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ulvir posted:historical fiction might scratch some of the same itches that sprawling high fantasy epics does Trying to come up with a lit rec for a fantasy reader and coming up short I realised I don't really have a clue what itches the sprawling high fantasy epics scratch
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Very fanciful historical fiction like Salammbô or classic adventure serials like Féval's The Hunchback seem like they would bridge the gap gently while introducing the fantasy reader to significantly better prose than what they're used to e: Or proto-fantasy like The Worm Ouroboros, philosophical novels like Zadig or Jurgen, satires of chivalric literature like Gargantua or Don Quixote... lost in postation fucked around with this message at 12:19 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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If you're coming from sci-fi, the obvious choice for real literature is Karel Čapek. Because he wrote sci-fi that was real literature.
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Like some others in the thread I've been recently reading To the Lighthouse, just finished it and it's some of the best prose I've ever read. Kinda wish this wasn't my first Woolf novel because now I'm afraid I'll be disappointed by the other ones. I'll probably be reading Orlando next
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Invisible Cities is short and a condensation of the distinctive power of fantasy.
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olorum posted:Like some others in the thread I've been recently reading To the Lighthouse, just finished it and it's some of the best prose I've ever read. Kinda wish this wasn't my first Woolf novel because now I'm afraid I'll be disappointed by the other ones. I'll probably be reading Orlando next Good news! Orlando will be February's BotM!
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Peel posted:Invisible Cities is short and a condensation of the distinctive power of fantasy. Oh Marquez? It's his second-shittest book.
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no Calvino, and if that's true I'm looking forward to reading the others!!
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Peel posted:no Calvino, and if that's true I'm looking forward to reading the others!! OK sorry I was really drunk. But that's Calvino's worst adult book.
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